Fish Washington User Reviews

Fish Washington
Fish Washington
Washington Department of Fish & Wildlife

Customer Experience

Positive experience25.5% of reviews
Neutral15.2% of reviews
Negative experience59.3% of reviews

~ Based on 145 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Fish Washington Safe?

Fish Washington appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Fish Washington is 86/100.

This assessment is based on 6,959 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.3/5.

Safety Analysis

82.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
6.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
10.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 6,959 App Store ratings for Fish Washington.

Is Fish Washington Legit?

Fish Washington appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Fish Washington is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Wish it pulled more data from the WA fish and wildlife website

This app is good and communicating the regulations at every body of water. However, I wish it displayed information about which fish you may find and their stocking history, which exists on the WA fish and wildlife website.

idiots

where are the rules for fishing salmon in area 9

Map issues

You can only use offline maps. It says online maps are too slow and won’t show the detailed maps.
App is slow.
App has issues with licensing.

App sucks, won’t change modes and error sending issues.

App won’t let you change map modes, won’t let you send issues to report. Worthless app.

App stuck in pamphlet mode

Adding as a review since the link for developer support is broken…. With one of the latest releases the pamphlet mode toggle does nothing, which results in regulations showing for all dates and the previous pattern of knowing the regs “right now” is no longer. Washington has very complex regulations, this risks our sensitive fish populations and it’s no longer easy to see “is it open”? Ideally you can fix the app so it shows today’s regs and you bring back the calendar selector so you can plan for a future trip.
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Maps

I love how you can only view the offline map. I’ve tried to connect the other options and continues to say online map is slow.

Bad review just cuz I think WDFW are a bunch of crooks.

Crooks

Won’t open

App won’t open today. Has crashed 3 dozen times on me. Hope I don’t run into enforcement today!!!

Unreliable

This app is super unreliable and gives out poor information about open and closed waters. Went fishing somewhere where, according to the app, it said it was open and available to fishing. Some nice people came up to me and informed me that it was actually closed. I went to a local fly shop to confirm and I showed them the app and they just laughed and said that this app often provides the wrong information. I thought this would be a nice app to have but now I’m worried that the information it gives me will be incorrect.
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Annoyed

This state blows, buys baby carrots just to suck on them. Eats snickers upside down to feel the vainy part on their tongue. Dumb to have to do everything electronically

I’d give it a zero star it let me what a nightmare

Complete garbage this is the best they can offer us with all the money they take from us

Impossible to login for catch reporting

When I try to login to my account by entering a correct username, password, and OTP code, the following error is displayed: “An unknown error has occurred, Please try again later”

Fish Washington won’t display map on my iphone 8

Won’t display map on my iphone 8

Can’t Update

I used to be able to use the app without any issues but over the last year I haven’t been able to update the app. It will start to download the updates as soon as the app opens but then it freezes and doesn’t work. App is unusable for me currently.

Doesn’t Work

This app is terrible as it doesn’t load at all, a complete waste of space!

Used to work fine, now it won’t even open

ios user, doesn’t even open. “Bug fixes”? What bug fixes? It used to work fine but now it crashes before I can even open it.

Needs more work

I like it now allows a mobile license instead of paper….But the menu needs work, there isn’t a simple and clear menu item that says “Display License” instead its buried under the “Electronic Catch Record” menu item. That menu item makes no sense for those who fish freshwater. I’m not recording salmon. The whole change was to be able to shoe your license info on your phone. Make a obvious menu item.
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Rarely works

I use it on my iPhone and it rarely loads. So disappointed because when it does work it’s not a bad tool.
Hopefully with the license fee raping we’re getting in 2026 it will get some needed attention.

Doesn’t work sometimes

The app is not reliable as some updates prevent the app from working. The developer of this apps does not do a good job of double checking their coding. After updates the app frequently crashes

App crashes on launch

Fresh download and install. App repeatedly crashes right after launch. Tried reinstalling. Just doesn’t work on iOS 16!